Trails
- Bled is world famous for its glacial lake, its island and castle. Photo: Jakše - Jeršič
Slovenia is a real a mosaic of landscapes. It is proud of its snow-covered mountains and a sea coast caressed by the Mediterranean sun. Beautiful karst caves and thermal springs are just waiting to be discovered. Deep gorges, mountain rivers and slow flatland rivers, mountain lakes and the mysterious Karst, ancient villages and medieval towns, old castles and modern entertainment centres, the warm Adriatic, vineyards – everything is in abundance in Slovenia.
Slovenia is home to more than 15,000 animal species and 3,200 plant species This great number of species in such a small area means that Slovenia's flora and fauna are among the richest in Europe and even in the world. Thus it can be rightly depicted as a European biotic park.
Approximately 11% of Slovenia's territory is specially protected; the largest area with such a regime is the Triglav National Park with a surface area of 848 km2. The Škocjan Caves were entered on the world heritage list at UNESCO in 1986, and the Sečovlje saltpans and Cerknica Lake are included on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance.
Features
The castle which marks the city
March 2012
The first references to the medieval town of Ljubljana were recorded in the twelfth century and the history tells us that, at that time, a small wooden fort was already located on the hill. However, the first explicit mention of the castle itself dates back...
Slovenian days in Milan
February 2012
Between 10 February and 1 April 2012, Slovenia is being showcased in Milan and Lombardy; the main events of the presentation take place between 10 and 19 February. The tourist, economic, cultural and political presentation of Slovenia is encompassed by the...
»Comfortably at home« in Ivančna Gorica
January 2012
Just a quarter of an hour after leaving the ring road of Ljubljana, travelling on the motorway south-east, you come upon a region which could hardly be more authentically Slovene – Ivančna Gorica. You've only just left the bustle of the capital, and you’re...
The Ljubljana Marshes – the romantic entrance hall of the Slovenian capital
November 2011
The Ljubljana Marshes are a vast marshy plain extending over approximately 150 square kilometers from the southern suburbs of Ljubljana to the first foothills of the mountains in the south. In past decades, the Ljubljana Marshes have come to be regarded as an...
In the enchanting Goričko Landscape Park
October 2011
Goričko is the northernmost corner of Slovenia and part of Prekmurje which extends on the left side of the Mura river after which this region is named. The dyllic landscape park is enclosed by three other landscape parks in the neighboring Austria and...
Slovenia is (still) a paradise for mushroom-pickers
September 2011
Slovenia is lucky to have three different climates – the Alpine, Mediterranean and Pannonian – for they give rise to an extremely wide variety of different mushrooms. And indeed, mushroom-picking has probably been the country’s most widespread recreational...
